TVO Control Tower

Maine Pointe is a global supply chain and operations consulting firm that drives compelling economic returns for companies.

Our Total Value Optimization (TVO) strategy improves profits, cash, growth and resilience across planning, procurement, logistics, operations and data analytics.

Working with executives and their teams, we break through functional silos and rapidly transform the plan-buy-make-move supply chain, with an average 6:1 return on investment (ROI).

Our unique 100% guarantee of engagement fees is based on annualized savings.

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The TVO Control Tower is designed for organizations experiencing:

• Procurement savings that fail to align with P&L impact, limiting cost optimization
• Missed opportunities to consolidate and better leverage spend for operational gains
• Poor understanding of supply base composition and geographic distribution, reducing leverage opportunities
• Persistent rogue or non-compliant spending patterns, undermining operational controls
• Gaps in visibility of the drivers of direct and indirect costs that hinder operational efficiency
• Fatigue from prior or ongoing initiatives that fail to deliver measurable results
• Limited clarity on current and historical spend, slowing actionable insights
• Inconsistent, incomplete and unclean data, creating barriers to accurate analysis and decision-making
• Confusion around spend categorization and taxonomy that makes it difficult to efficiently drill into details

The TVO Control Tower is purpose-built to deliver exceptional value for individual enterprises and portfolio-wide applications, making it ideal for private equity-owned companies.

Its adaptable design seamlessly integrates with diverse systems, data formats and operational structures, ensuring scalability and consistency across varied businesses within portfolios.

The TVO Control Tower redefines what organizations can – and should – expect from procurement analytics: actionable insights and support for informed decision-making that drive sustained bottom-line results.

Savings identification engine

The TVO Control Tower leverages AI to scan and analyze your spend data, pinpointing inefficiencies and uncovering savings opportunities aligned with your sourcing strategy, cost centers and category management structure.

ROI: identifies potential total spend savings of 8-12%, translating into millions of dollars in annual savings depending on spend volume.

Data acquisition

The TVO Control Tower seamlessly integrates data headers from diverse file formats across any system of record, simplifying data ingestion and reducing time spent on manual mapping. Its software-agnostic design ensures compatibility with any provider.

ROI: accelerates data onboarding by up to 50%, reducing implementation time and associated costs for spend analysis initiatives.

Effortless data cleansing and validation

The TVO Control Tower automates the aggregation, cleansing and normalization of spend data from multiple sources, addressing inconsistencies and delivering reliable, actionable insights.

ROI: improves data accuracy by 70-90%, saving up to 40% of the time typically spent on manual data validation and rework.

Hybrid intelligence (HI)

By combining advanced AI algorithms with the knowledge of Maine Pointe’s expert team, the TVO Control Tower creates a self-correcting system that uncovers precise, actionable insights, ensuring your spend data translates into tangible opportunities for efficiency and value creation.

ROI: enables 20-30% faster identification of actionable insights, with potential value creation of 3-5% of total spend through improved decision-making.

Precision-driven materials and services taxonomy

Backed by two decades of continuous development, our proprietary taxonomy delivers best-in-class categorization for materials and services. By integrating established industry standards, such as CAS Numbers, SIC codes and other enterprise classifications, with our precise, proven approach, we eliminate confusion in spend categorization and enable deeper, targeted analysis tailored to unique business needs.

ROI: reduces reclassification efforts by 60-80%, saving costs on data rework and enabling faster reporting cycles.

Customizable dashboards for clarity

The TVO Control Tower features intuitive, cloud-based dashboards (Spend Cube) that provide a quick and comprehensive view of spend data, with detailed drill-downs into suppliers, categories, regions and spend volume, driving better adoption and insight generation.

ROI: increases user adoption and visibility by 70%, enabling teams to identify 10-15% more efficiency opportunities through faster data-driven decisions.

The TVO Control Tower is part of Maine Pointe’s powerful suite of integrated, end-to-end data-driven services for providing visibility, resilience and control across the entire plan-buy-make-move/fulfill supply chain.